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"E Pluribus Unum" (with figure of woman)
John Vanminian (American, 19th century)
Medium/Technique
Watercolor and iron gall ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 19.2 x 15.4 cm (7 9/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.750
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1340, fig. 359 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- Fractur- American eagle, clover leaves and floral medallions on either side of narrow panel containing profile figure of woman in long, low-necked dress. By same hand as birth certificate of Sarah Harley, born 1791: "Done by me John Vanminian," Lorimer Sale, part I, p. 59, no. 390, ill.; Arther J. Sussell Sale, Parke-Bernet, part I, Oct. 24, 1958, p. 55, no. 317. Also "George Washington," dated 1842, Geesey Coll., Philadelphia Museum of Art; "Johannes Lefler seine frau," Schwenkfelder Library, Pennsburg, Pa.; birth certificate of Elisabetha Geschwind, born 1805, Berks County, ill. Portfolio, Jan. 1945, p. 101; and birth and baptismal certificate of Susannah Guysinger, 1825, il. Art of America, vol. XLII, no. 2, May 1954, p. 144. The two later, ill. Shelley, Fraktur-Writings, fig. 293.
InscriptionsUnder eagles in ink on both sides: Epluribus Unum
ProvenanceGeorge H. Lorimer; 1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)